This Company Is Salvaging EV Parts From Old Airplanes

The old saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” is truer than ever with a new Singaporean startup that specializes in targeted commercial jets for cheap electric vehicle components. Yes, I know that sounds a bit strange, but it’s exactly what Nandia REM is doing. The company spoke with Bloomberg and said it is … Read more

Minister Madeleine King calls urgent industry sit-down as WA’s nickel, lithium woes spiral into crisis

Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King has called an urgent meeting with her WA counterpart and industry heavyweights as the State’s critical minerals industry implodes on price pressures. The announcement follows Andrew Forrest’s Wyloo Metals shuttering its nickel mines in the Goldfields earlier on Monday, seeking to cauterise financial wounds that are likely well into the … Read more

China unearths million-tonne lithium deposit, heating up global resource race as Thailand also boasts big find

That discovery will increase China’s supply of a resource needed for lithium batteries, which are critical to many mass-market electric vehicles sold around the world. China has been trying to market itself as the renewable battery centre for the worldJames Chin, University of Tasmania China already had about 7 per cent of the world’s identified … Read more

Federal Government’s critical minerals list gets a reshuffle with a secondary ‘strategic’ bundle added

The Federal Government has updated its critical minerals list, including a surprise addition, and, in a boon for a plethora of WA miners, will up its support for other battery metals developments. Heading into 2024 the Government will knock helium from its critical minerals list and add rare earths elements molybdenum, selenium and tellurium, as … Read more